Energy-Saving Achievement Evaluation System with Group Comparison
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing energy-saving systems lack motivation for users to improve their energy-saving efforts, as they primarily focus on individual achievements without stimulating competitive spirit or providing incentives for comparison with others.
Innovation Solution
A system that includes a device for evaluating energy-saving achievements by comparing user data across various attributes like business type, scale, and consumption patterns, and providing incentives based on these comparisons, allowing users to compete and receive rewards for improved energy efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If energy-saving achievement is evaluated by comparing individual user data, then energy-saving motivation is provided, but competitive spirit and external motivation are not stimulated
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a third-party evaluation body that acts as an intermediary between users and the energy-saving evaluation process. This mediator collects data from multiple users, performs standardized evaluations, and provides comparable results that stimulate competitive spirit while maintaining fair and objective assessment criteria.
Solution Approach 2:
The evaluation system is designed to handle multiple users and diverse energy-saving scenarios universally. It can evaluate different types of energy consumption data, compare users across various categories, and provide standardized evaluation results that work for both individual and group comparisons, thereby enhancing motivational effectiveness.
2Device complexity
If only individual energy-saving data is collected, then simple evaluation is possible, but lack of comparative data reduces motivational impact
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges individual user data collection with population-level data aggregation into a unified evaluation system. By combining multiple individual datasets and comparing them against each other and against standardized criteria, the system maintains relatively simple data collection mechanisms while generating rich comparative data that enhances motivational impact.
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements feedback mechanisms where evaluation results are communicated back to users in a standardized format. This feedback loop provides users with comparable performance data, recognition of their energy-saving achievements, and motivation to improve further, thereby enhancing the overall promotion effect without complicating the data collection process.
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AI summary
An energy-saving promotion achievement-evaluating device is provided in which: a population-constituting user identification information-obtaining unit comprises a population-constituting group identification information-obtaining means for obtaining population-constituting group identification information for obtaining, as comparison targets, a plurality of groups identified by group identification information for identifying a group constituted by a plurality of pieces of user identification information as the comparison target; and an energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result-obtaining unit comprises a group-energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result-obtaining means for obtaining energy consumption achievement data of the group identified by the population-constituting group identification information obtained by the population-constituting group identification information-obtaining means as an energy-saving promotion achievement evaluation result in association with the group identification information on the basis of the held energy-saving evaluation rule.